American’s killing spree prompted by wife’s cooking

FOR months, Stanley Neace had shown increasing hostility to his neighbours in rural eastern Kentucky, to the point his landlord started eviction proceedings.

Then he snapped over how his wife cooked his eggs, and killed her and four others with a shotgun before shooting himself.

Neighbours in the roadside mobile home park said Neace stormed across several lawns in his pyjamas on Saturday and fired dozens of shots from a 12-gauge pump shotgun.

When the rampage ended, Neace and his wife lay dead, along with the gunman’s stepdaughter and three neighbours.

Trooper Jody Sims of the Kentucky State Police said Neace, 47, killed the five people in two mobile homes, then went to his home and turned the gun on himself.

The state medical examiner’s office in Frankfort was expected to perform autopsies on all six who died.

Neighbour Steve Smith saw the shootings from the window of his mobile home. When he walked outside, Smith said Neace took a shot at him but missed.

“He chased his wife around that Jeep shooting at her,” Smith said, pointing to a SUV parked outside his mobile home. “I heard her screaming and running.”